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CVE-2015-7547

New glibc vulnerability found: Patch for CVE-2015-7547 available now!

Posted by Curtis K in Announcements Feb, 17 2016 2 Comments

A new exploit vulnerability has been found: CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow . According to the CVE, "A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the libresolv library performed dual A/AAAA DNS queries. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted DNS response which could cause libresolv to crash or, ... Read More...

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